Memphis

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Memphis: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Memphis: Recorded since 1999, it reached #1,124 in 2017, and it stood at #1,951 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#1124highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2001	#2783
2002	#4137
2004	#2530
2005	#3970
2012	#5876
2014	#5691
2015	#4103
2016	#4096
2017	#4063
2019	#4686
2021	#2711
2022	#5669
2023	#4709
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 15 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2001–2024
Highest recorded position: #1124 among boys in England and Wales, in 2017 (recorded 2001–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4192 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Memphis appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 24 ranked years and 333 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 1999.

Memphis across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Memphis's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#2530 (2004)	#4192 (2024)	15 of 26	68 (1999–2024)	9 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#1595 (2001)	#1124 (2017)	#1951 (2024)	24 of 24	333 (2001–2024)	25 (2017)

Memphis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Memphis in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	102	9 of 10	11
2010s	151	10 of 10	15
2020sbusiest	80	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Memphis appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1124 in England and Wales in 2017.

Memphis's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1461	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1420	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1290	20	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1723	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1655	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1124	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1157	24	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1186	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1920	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1756	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2036	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1617	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1596	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1248	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1519	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,124, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 25 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Menaal · #891, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Willoughby · #1124, 26y
Ebenezer · #1125, 29y
Taye · #1125, 24y
Amreen · #1126, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Willoughby · #1124, 26y
Ebenezer · #1125, 29y
Amreen · #1126, 29y
Hamida · #1126, 26y

Memphis and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Memphis without appearing here.

Memphis moved ahead of

Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #5581.
Kerry Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4063 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #4634.
Pauline Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #4634.
Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1519 and #3225.

Moved ahead of Memphis

Eabha Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2530 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #2338.
Linnea Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4063 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #4686 and #2643.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4103 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4063 and #2706.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2530 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #3970 and #2682.

Moved the opposite way to Memphis

Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Memphis went from #2783 to #4192 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.
Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Memphis went from #2530 to #4192 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1124 in England and Wales in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Memphis

Memphis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Memphis across 2 official records

Memphis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Memphis appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Memphis and the names beside it

Memphis moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Memphis

Moved the opposite way to Memphis

Memphis at a glance

Memphis across 2 official records

Memphis by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Memphis appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Memphis and the names beside it

Memphis moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Memphis

Moved the opposite way to Memphis